Gale: First Draft
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Made in LOVE2D 11.2 (11.0 compatible)
Controls:
Hold [left click] and drag along the character to draw your arrow, release to fire.
Hold [right click] and select a direction for the wind to blow, release to make your selection.
This game was made for two jams simultaneously. LOVE2D jam, which was a 2 days long, and hentaiphd's Precision Jam, which was a week (including the weekend). The love jam version (aka "Gale") was made in two days. The Precision Jam entry (Gale 2 / Gale Post-lovejam) was the result of 5 days of refinement from the first game.
Third party code credit:
Made in LOVE2D -- http://love2d.org
JSON to LUA by rxi -- https://github.com/rxi/json.lua
Sound Credit:
All sounds came from http://freesound.org
Attribution: InspectorJ
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Install instructions
For the Love Jam version I only uploaded the .love file. To play it you'll need to install love2d at http://love2d.org
Once installed, you should be able to double click the .love file to run it.
Comments
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sounds are a bit too loud, especially in v2
sometimes it feels like im hitting the target the intended way, the arrow just wont stick. i will try again and then it magically works. really frustrating for harder tricks, when i think i got them and then the arrow just bounces off.
the balloons are a cool mechanic, though they are exploitable. they reset if you shoot an arrow. so in stage 14, where you are supposed to send your arrow backwards i gust shot two arrows, before one hit a balloon. you can also do that on the final level...lol.
the line that shows the arrows path is imprecise. your arrow shoots slightly further up from what the line shows. this means you can miss a taget, when the line tells you that you would hit it, and tight gaps are hard to aim through.
also that level 16 stupid. in the other version it was also bad, but fine. there the screen wasnt restricted. here i keep hitting the pot or floor. the arrows movement is restricted so much through those that the target is nearly impossible to hit.
all in all gameplay wise they are the same game. v2 is just a visual and auditory touch up from the void of v1. the game was decent fun, but it was mostly frustrating due to issues mentioned.
Really cool game, and I like how I can control the wind.
The controls in this game are so great. Here's my playthrough!
Here's my postmortem!